Tuesday, July 17, 2012

KOREAN MUSIC: MBC’s “I AM a Singer” Season 2 (10)

The singers in Group B were also on the same mission to sing foreign songs for the second night of the July NAGASU round (7/8/2012) and here's a list of six songs selected by them (in the order they were performed):

Sohyang was the winner of the night and Han
Young-ae and Kim Yeonwoo made the top three along withher. Some may think I'm biased
but Han Young-ae was my personal favorite among other singers who had
performed. Again, people have been divided into two extremes on
her rendition of the song as they were 3 weeks ago when she performed Lee Sora's "The Wind Blows": Some
loved it and others hated it. Some netizens even wrote she was spooky and
creepy. Han said in her pre-performance package that her performance
would be some kind ofSalpuri(살풀이) (Click to watchSalpuri dance): "Imagine how a person would
feel when knocking on Heaven's door. Would it be despair?
Self-abandonment? I will sing this song as if praying that we may
rid ourselves of the greed, even just a sliver of it."

BTW...... I think Kim Gunmo seemed under the weather or something but above
all else, his problem was choosing the wrong song. Air
Supply didn't do him justice at all ‘cause his voice and singing style do not
match Russell Hitchcock’s. And Kim
Yeonwoo was okay but while listening to him sing the song, I found myself
longing to hear Eric Carmen.